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...Forcing yourself to fast, vigil and pray, you think that you are doing it yourself, you don’t know why; but you must do this out of love for God, which you do not feel in yourself... When this thought leaves, another takes its place, and passions one another pass on to your poor heart... The bodily activities you perform cannot be said to be done without knowing why; but precisely from love for God, but imperfect, but like a small embryo in the heart, coming from faith (I, 7, 30, 31).
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